Houma City Docks

Houma is one of our favorite places.  It sits immediately off of the ICWW in the Terribone channel between two bridges.  The barge traffic at the intersection can be quite an experience.  We had a boat coming toward us pushing four barges... It held up for us to get past an go behind it.  As you can see from the photo that is Cambria passing it and we went to port (right) behind it into the marina.  Al him to cut back his engines so we could cross his wake as we came behind him.  The backwash from those engines can really toss you about.  He cut his engines for us and we proceeded.  However, Last Trade was behind us and as they came around he gunned his engines and sent them tossing.  No cool.

Here we are circling waiting for the barge to get pulled over so we could go past him.

Here is our gang tied up at the marina. You can see us situated between the two bridges.  Behind us the ICWW intersects with this channel.

Once we settled in walked into town (about a 15 minute walk) and ate dinner at Samurai Dragon.  A good little Chinese restaurant that we found last time.

The next day we chilled out and I got a chance to do our laundry!  Everyone made fun of my little washing machine, but it worked well... They really like my clothes hanging all over the boat.

 

No trip to Houma is complete without a dinner out at Christiano's.  And Oysters Gerdes. We named them for Ron since he, who does not eat oysters, insisted we go 100 miles out of our way last trip to come back here for more!

We did not go over to the Hospital for breakfast this time, but that is also a recommended place to go... Cheap, good food... and WiFi.

The other interesting thing that happened while there was on the last night.  I got up in the middle of the night because I kept hearing something hit the boat.  As I walked up the steps to the sundeck I see this huge ship coming through the bridges.  All of a sudden I hear this explosion and see a huge flash of light coming from the top of the "ship".  Actually it was a huge off-shore crew boat and it was so tall that it obviously hit the high wires just before the bridge.  The sound woke Josh and Barb up and they too came out to see what happened.

The next day we passed a crew boat and see that it had a burn mark on top of the Satellite dome so we believe that was the one that came by and assume it actually hit the bridge, not the power line.